[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

Tue Oct 17 01:57:55 UTC 2006

Roger Luethi wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:19:13 -0400, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> Right.  So one of the things I am hearing loud and clear is that our 
>> community would generally like to see more money spent on lobbying 
>> efforts for copyright reform.  That is a point very well taken.
> 
> It is not so much about copyright reform as it is about investing money
> rather than spending it, and this is a rare opportunity to talk about that.
> 
> Another example, unrelated to copyright reform: Wikipedia editors need
> access to primary sources, particularly academic journals. The fate of
> current ventures in Open Access journals largely determines whether most
> potential Wikipedia editors will have easy access to the sources they need
> in the years to come, and funding for these journals (or lack thereof) will
> be a major factor.
> 

Right. There are journal archives around with stuff going back hundreds
of years, but they claim copyright on all their materials; if we could
free that which already qualifies for PD-old, it would be a major step
in the right direction.

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